Performance and Rehearsal Practices of Minimalist Music: Specifically related to Music for Eighteen Musicians by Steve Reich
DUMMY (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Vinyl Factory Manufacture from thevinylfactory on Vimeo . Chanced across this surprisingly beautiful, Steve Reich-backed video shot at the Vinyl Factory pressing plant, documenting the production of a record. Quite lovely.
Now What Happens? (Free subscription) | yesterday
... minimalist, pop, folk ensemble, with a sense of humour. Some of their music is reminiscent of Steve Reich, or Michael Nyman, but with added warmth and humanity. Some of it is like a hoedown in a barn full of drunk trombonists. That should make you listen. You'll have heard Perpetuum Mobile and Telephone and Rubber Band and other tunes as they've been on countless adverts, or backing...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Bruce Springsteen? Drowning rats? Steve Reich and the joyous art of hedonism? Amazingly, these are the least interesting topics that Wild Beasts talk about in this interview, following a year of very well-deserved acclaim for their sophomore album ... Wild Beasts are truly unique. The strained hyperbole of PR agencies might have rendered a statement like that unexceptional, but amongst...
Disconcerted Sounds (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... by halfway has settled to a heavy rock riff with the violin attempting to capture the essence of Steve Reich. Track three is really the peak of the post-rock track. Somehow the violin begins to sound like a saxophone and the drums become engulfed in the overdriven guitar chords. A bit of an unconventional track that alone I think I would love but it feels slightly out of sorts on...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... music that, with its repetitive patterns, references minimalist composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich, but from a greater distance. But that's only two aspects of the rich and surprisingly varied Manifest DeNsity...
